2016 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

UO Team Helps Show Peatlands May Hold On to Carbon

Carbon accumulating deep in peat around the world may be less likely to be released into the air by global warming than originally thought, according to new findings by a research team that included University of Oregon contributors.

Breakthrough Solar Cell Captures CO2 and Sunlight, Produces Burnable Fuel

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have engineered a potentially game-changing solar cell that cheaply and efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into usable hydrocarbon fuel, using only sunlight for energy.

UCLA Team Makes Step Toward Long-Lasting, Fast-Charging and High-Powered Energy Storage

A UCLA research team has made a major advance toward developing oxide supercapacitors, energy-storage devices that would combine the longevity of a battery with the fast-charge times and high-power property of capacitors.

UT Research Reveals Potential for 50-fold Increase in Catalyst Mass Activity

University of Tennessee and national lab research has led to a new understanding of how and where electrochemical reactions occur, by moving from traditional electrolysis technology to what is known as proton exchange membrane electrolyzer cells or PEMECs.

Newly Discovered Bacteria Linked With Ocean Nitrogen Loss

A team led by the Georgia Institute of Technology has discovered members of a highly prolific bacteria group known as SAR11 living in the world’s largest oxygen minimum zone. The team has produced unambiguous evidence that the bacteria play a major role in denitrification.

LSU Physicists Collaborate on T2K CP Violation Results to Explain Workings of Universe

With newly collected antineutrino data from the T2K experiment, LSU physicists have shown the continuation of trends observed in 2015, which is a preference for maximal disappearance of muon neutrinos, as well as a discrepancy between the electron neutrino and electron antineutrino appearance rates.

IU Study: During Drought, Dry Air Can Stress Plants More Than Dry Soil

Newly published research by Indiana University scientists finds that low relative humidity in the atmosphere is a significant, growing and often under-appreciated cause of plant stress in hot, dry weather conditions.

Findings About Protein Could Open Door to New Class of Antibiotics

Scientists at Oregon State University have made the first-ever detailed, atomic-level images of a peroxiredoxin, which has revealed a peculiar characteristic of this protein and might form the foundation for a new approach to antibiotics.

Researchers Find a Way to Extend Life and Improve Performance of Fuel Cell Electrodes

Researchers at MIT have developed a practical and physically-based way of treating the surface of materials called perovskite oxides, to make them more durable and improve their performance.

New Approach to Microlasers

Researchers at MIT and Sandia National Laboratories describe a new way to build terahertz lasers that could significantly reduce their power consumption and size, while also enabling them to emit tighter beams, a crucial requirement for most practical applications.

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Discovery of Gold Nanocluster “Double” Hints at Other Shape Changing Particles

Polymorphs, or materials with the same composition but different structures, are common in bulk materials, and now researchers at Columbia University confirm they exist in nanomaterials, too.

To Infinity and Beyond with Nanosatellites

Moving a nanosatellite around in space takes only a tiny amount of thrust. Engineers from Michigan Technological University and the University of Maryland teamed up, put a nanoscale rocket under a microscope, and watched what happened.